Recipes and Everyday Knowledge

Leong, Elaine

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“…These books ironically 'promoted normative ideas about gender roles and gendered labor', giving historians the impression that collecting recipes was housework, and thus, women's work. 9 By going beyond the printed text, Leong shows us that 'the gendering of such knowledge was nuanced and complex'. 10 We are introduced to several married couples who undertake the creation of family recipe books together, often based on a 'starter' set of recipes from a trusted relation.…”

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“…9 By going beyond the printed text, Leong shows us that 'the gendering of such knowledge was nuanced and complex'. 10 We are introduced to several married couples who undertake the creation of family recipe books together, often based on a 'starter' set of recipes from a trusted relation. While men were heavily involved in 'exchanging, testing and experimenting with recipe knowledge', actually producing them was the work of 'teams of female workers -wives, daughters, housekeepers and maids '.…”

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“…17 One is struck by marginal notes like 'my wife took it' and 'it cured me of a Bloody-flux'. 18 It is perhaps no wonder that these books had a 'select audience' and that 'householders strove to control the transfer' of the 'family book' to future generations. 19 These recipe books became precious over generations, and alongside other important books like a family's Bible, it became the 'paperwork of kinship' -a site where births, deaths and other genealogical information were noted down in the margins or on empty pages.…”

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“…18 It is perhaps no wonder that these books had a 'select audience' and that 'householders strove to control the transfer' of the 'family book' to future generations. 19 These recipe books became precious over generations, and alongside other important books like a family's Bible, it became the 'paperwork of kinship' -a site where births, deaths and other genealogical information were noted down in the margins or on empty pages. Thus, 'writing recipes was a way of writing the idea of the family' and of caring for the health of the household -'bodily, social, political, and financial'.…”

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“…Thus, 'writing recipes was a way of writing the idea of the family' and of caring for the health of the household -'bodily, social, political, and financial'. 20 Medievalists do not always find sources that lend themselves well to the undertaking of such a textured social history. Sara Verskin resourcefully turns to male discourses about reproductive health in the medieval Middle East, investing an astounding breadth of sources.…”

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On the face of it, the history of excerpting appears to be a history of the distant, scholarly past. Excerpting is commonly seen as essentially a learned practice tied to bookish forms of knowledge production and thus, from the perspective of modernity, outdated. It fits this picture that the surge in research on note taking of the last three decades was largely driven by scholarship on learned authors in Renaissance Europe. 1 To be sure, this important research paved the way for studies that go beyond learned forms of knowledge production in the sixteenth century. They show, for instance, how conceptualizations and practices of note-taking that owed much to Renaissance humanism shaped the "New Science" of the seventeenth century or art historical knowledge in the eighteenth century. They also demonstrate that these selfsame note-taking practices also shaped the way in which first-hand observations were recorded. 2 Still others brought the note-taking of Early Modern people to the fore who were not learned members of the respublica literaria. 3 Considerably less research has been conducted on excerpting in the sciences and the humanities in later periods, let alone excerpting in literature and the arts. 4 By contrast, this themed issue starts from the assumption that excerpting has been practiced throughout modernity and is practiced to the present day in different areas of text and art production. Rather than seeing excerpting as an essentially premodern learned practice that ended in the eighteenth century, we consider the eighteenth century as pivotal for a history of modern excerpting that is still ongoing. The contributions brought together in this issue constitute a starting point for a history of excerpting in this vein in the longue durØe perspective. They center on a scholar or an artist whose excerpting is instructive for the history of excerpting more generally or, in the case of plagiarism, a practice as well as a legal concept the histories of which are intimately connected to changing practices and conceptualizations of excerpting. It is clear, however, that even collectively, these studies cannot begin to exhaust the topic but, rather, constitute only a first set of probes into a history of excerpting understood not as a premodern but a modern phenomenon that warrants a concerted research effort.In what follows, we will first propose a definition of excerpting that covers all stages of the excerpting process rather than centering on the writing of excerpts 1 an overview from a systems theory perspective of the history of excerpting from antiquity up to the eighteenth century (on 5 -137) and in an appendix (on 139 -425) offers Italian translations of six texts on the history of excerpting by

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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge

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Introduction: Towards a History of Excerpting in Modernity

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